West Bank Raids Spread as Over 6,500 Palestinians Displaced
By Palestine Chronicle Staff October 1, 2026 Israeli settlers attack a Palestinian community in the occupied West Bank. (Photo: via QNN) Israeli occupation forces raided Palestinian communities across the West Bank as settler attacks continued, with thousands displaced since 2023, OCHA reported. Key Developments Israeli occupation forces searched homes across the West Bank early Thursday, detained a Palestinian in Tammun and seized a vehicle in Tuqu’. Settlers stole Palestini
The Palestine Chronicle
2 days ago
Special Report: The Persecution of Afghanistan’s Hazaras
By August Wyma and Sophia Khan Girls read from their textbooks at the Dasht-e-Barchi Education Centre in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Credit:UNICEF/Shehzad Noorani) Afghanistan is a religiously and ethnically diverse country whose modern history has been shaped by attempted intervention, political instability, and national identity struggles. Within such circumstances, the Hazara people in Afghanistan have endured over a century of systematic persecution because of their distinct eth
Genocide Watch
3 days ago
Amnesty International: Abolish ICE
In a new report, Amnesty International documented widespread human rights violations committed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and other federal agencies during the Trump administration’s large-scale, militarized immigration enforcement operations in Chicago, Minneapolis-St. Paul, New Orleans and Washington, DC. The report, “We Had Whistles, They Had Guns”: Human Rights Violations in U.S. Immigration Enforcement Oper
Amnesty International
5 days ago
UN human rights chief alarmed over attacks on LGBTQ rights
By Michael K. Lavers 22 September 2026 Volker Türk on Monday spoke at UN LGBTI Core Group event. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk (Screen capture via UN Human Rights Council/YouTube) UNITED NATIONS — U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Monday said there is a “comprehensive onslaught” against LGBTQ and intersex rights around the world. “We know that progress for human rights has never been linear … but today’s backlash is deep and it is co
Washington Blade
Sep 25
Human Rights Watch condemns Iran executions
Iran’s Execution Campaign Against Protesters Human Rights Watch Sep 11, 2026 Day after day, Iranian authorities are sending protesters, including teenagers, who took part in widespread protests from December 2025-January 2026 to the gallows. Between March and August this year, a span of just five months, authorities arbitrarily executed at least 59 men on politically motivated and vague national security charges following grossly unfair trials. Those put to death include at l
Human Rights Watch
Sep 11
The Illegal Abduction of Ukrainian Children
Special Report, August 2026 By Sophia Khan, Beth Paul, Alexander Smith, and Emily Mullin Ukrainian children fleeing Russian aggression (Mirek Pruchnicki from Przemyśl, Sanok, Polska, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons) The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Parliamentary Assembly has publicly presented its 2026 report by the Special Envoy on Russian Abductions and Deportations of Ukrainian Children. The report stresses that the situation on the return o
Genocide Watch
Aug 17
UN probes into deaths in Pakistani-administered Kashmir
By AP and Reuters July 17, 2026 Kashmir clashes have killed 31 since June, leading UN rights chief Volker Turk to appeal for calm Protesters on the march in Pakistan-administered Kashmir during a strike called by the banned Joint Awami Action Committee, an alliance of civil society groups in Neelum Valley [File: Naseer ud Din/Reuters] The United Nations human rights chief has called for an independent investigation into deadly unrest in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. On Frida
Al Jazeera
Jul 22
Egypt prosecutes a Doctor for reporting obstetric Violence
By Amr Magdi and Skye Wheeler 6 July, 2026 Suspended Prison Sentence for Doctor Whose Post Stirred Flood of Accounts A doctor examines a pregnant woman at a hospital in the province of Fayoum, southwest of Cairo, Egypt, February 19, 2019. © 2019 Hayam Adel/Reuters An Egyptian court sentenced doctor and filmmaker Omnia Suwydan on July 4 to a six-months suspended prison sentence and a fine of 20,000 Egyptian pounds (US$408) for alleging obstetric violence at an Alexandria publi
Human Rights Watch (HRW)
Jul 16
Urgent Threat of Genocidal Massacres in El Obeid, Sudan
Genocide Emergency July 2026 By Grace Harris The Sudanese city of El-Obeid, where a drone strike killed 10 people including seven children on Monday, a medical source told AFP. (Credit: Reuters/File) Genocide Watch is issuing a Genocide Emergency Alert for Sudan. The besieged city of El Obeid, Sudan is at immediate risk of genocidal massacres as Rapid Support Forces (RSF) surround the city now held by the Sudan Armed Forces. El Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan, lies
Genocide Watch
Jul 15
Kenya protesters were tortured after arrests
By Alex Milan Durie and AFP Published On 27 Jun 2026 Six found and one missing, NGOs say, after arrests at memorial gatherings for protesters killed in 2024. "Kenyan police officers watch as activists place flowers on barbed-wire barrier during demonstrations to mark the second anniversary of the deadly June 2024 youth-led anti-Finance Bill protests, on June 25, 2026 [AFP]" Credit: Al Jazeera Six people who were found “abandoned by the roadside” in Kenya allege that they were
Al Jazeera
Jul 13
Sexual Violence and Bodily Autonomy in Palestine
By Grace Harris and Franzie Schatzl Israeli soldiers standing guard in an alleyway in Hebron, West Bank. Photograph: Mohammad Nazal/Middle East Images/AFP/Getty Images Sexual and gender-based violence is pervasive in conflict today. Conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) includes crimes such as rape, sexual slavery, forced pregnancy, forced abortion, sterilization, forced marriage, and other acts of a similar nature perpetrated against people in a conflict-related setting.
Genocide Watch
Jul 2
Kashmiri Rights Activist Wins Partial Court Victory
By Yashraj Sharma June 10, 2026 The Delhi High Court grants bail to Khurram Parvez, who has been jailed for nearly five years in ‘terror funding’ cases. Parvez Imroz, right, a Kashmiri human rights lawyer, talks to activist Khurram Parvez in their office in Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir, August 25, 2020. Credit: Al Jazeera New Delhi, India — A prominent Kashmiri human rights activist who has been imprisoned for nearly five years has won a partial legal victory after b
Al Jazeera
Jun 22
